Providing a summary of injury prevention evidence together in one location, the Evidence Bank aims to increase the awareness of reliable, accurate and authoritative injury-related research pieces.
Utilising the menu below you are able to search the Evidence Bank by injury topics, keywords and primary target audience. Please note that the primary target audience refers to the segmented group which the evidence is aiming to have the greatest influence on.
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| Year | Injury topic/s | Primary target audience | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Early Years (0 – 8 years), Middle Years (9 – 14 years) | Posa, I., Pawlowski, A. & Skarin, D. Kidsafe WA Childhood Injury Bulletin: Annual Report 2020-21. https://www.kidsafewa.com.au/professionals/wa-childhood-injury-bulletins-reports/ (2021). |
| 2022 | Alcohol-related harm | Whole Community | Whetton, S. et al. Examining the Social and Economic Costs of Alcohol Use in Australia: 2017/18. https://ndri.curtin.edu.au/ndri/media/documents/publications/T302.pdf (2021). |
| 2022 | Violence | Older Adults (65 years and over) | Qu, L. et al. National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study: Final Report. (Research Report). (2021). Available from: https://aifs.gov.au/publications/national-elder-abuse-prevalence-study-final-report |
| 2022 | Burns and Scalds | Whole Community | Injury in Australia: Thermal causes 2018-2019. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/thermal-causes (2021). |
| 2022 | Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | Australian Institute Of Health And Welfare. Hospitalised injury cases by external cause, Australia, 2018-2019. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injcat/213-1/injury-in-australia/data (2021). |
| 2021 | Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport | Early Years (0 – 8 years), Middle Years (9 – 14 years), Young People (15 – 25 years) | Posa, I., Pawlowski, A. & Skarin, D. Kidsafe WA Childhood Injury Bulletin: Annual Report 2020-21. https://www.kidsafewa.com.au/professionals/wa-childhood-injury-bulletins-reports/ (2021). |
| 2021 | Falls | Health Professionals | Tiedemann, A. et al. Impact of a fall prevention education program for health and exercise professionals: a randomised controlled trial. Public Health Res Pract. 31, (2021). Access from:https://www.phrp.com.au/issues/september-2021-volume-31-issue-3/impact-of-a-fall-prevention-education-program/ |
| 2021 | Burns and Scalds | Whole Community | Singer, Y. et al. “The home, the bathroom, the taps, and hot water”: The contextual characteristics of tap water scalds in Australia and New Zealand. Burns (2021) doi:10.1016/j.burns.2021.08.022. Access from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305417921002436 |
| 2021 | Burns and Scalds | Whole Community | AIHW. Injury in Australia: Burns and other thermal causes. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/burns-and-other-thermal-causes (2021). |
| 2021 | Intentional self-harm | Aboriginal Communities | Wright, M., Lin, A., O’Connell, M., Bullen, J. & Flavell, H. Understanding and working with different worldviews to co-design cultural security in clinical mental health settings to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients. Prim Health Care Res Dev 22, e59 (2021). Access from: https://www.cambridge.org.au |